On 11 June 2017 at 19:16, Davor Balder <da...@cropakglobal.com> wrote: > > > On 06/12/17 06:06, Rupert Gallagher wrote: >> >> I spent yesterday and today installing 6.1 from scratch on a Dell Optiplex >> gx620. The machine has a pentium 4 @3.0GHz with 4GB non ECC RAM, returning a >> passmark of 354*. The aim is to replace the accountant's windows 10 pro >> tomorrow morning, moving the disk into his more recent Dell. In summary, I >> have everything he needs, including a gui that looks like windows 7, except >> for the following, so far: >> >> a toolbar icon for the printer and a gui for cups, configuring and testing >> the printer (cups), the scanner (sane), and the remote desktop to a windows >> server (vnc). >> >> The only thing that refrains me from using it myself is the lack of >> Apple-like keyboard shortcuts on everything. They are a real time saver; >> forget about mouse and menu bars, you do everything everywhere with the same >> command-s, command-c, command-z, etc. By comparison, copying and pasting >> across windows and vim on other OSs is a royal pain. Opening tabs on >> terminal, firefox, file manager, vim, you name it: just command-t.
They are not everyone's cup of tea, but I use a tiling window manager with OpenBSD (I like xmonad, but there are other choices: dwm, i3, awesome; there's also spectrwm, written originally, I believe, by someone formerly associated with OpenBSD; I've tried it multiple times over the years and always had problems with it). The point of these things is, at least in part, exactly what you are talking about -- avoiding having to move between keyboard and mouse by providing keyboard commands for just about everything (everything you describe above is just as easy with my setup as on a Mac; I've used both and prefer the OpenBSD/xmonad setup). Tilers also eliminate the need to spend time rearranging windows. I do not use a desktop system; just the window manager, the Rox filer and dmenu. I used xmobar for battery and date-time info displayed on the bar at the top of the screen.
